Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Killachonan

Killachonan, a village and a burn in Fortingall parish, NW Perthshire. The village stands at the mouth of the burn, 8 miles W of Kinloch-Rannoch; and the burn, rising on Beinn Bhoidheach at an altitude of 2300 feet above sea-level, runs 57/8 miles south-by-westward to Loch Rannoch (668 feet), at a point 2¼ miles E of the loch's head.—Ord. Sur., sh. 54, 1873.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a burn"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Fortingall ScoP       Perthshire ScoCnty
Place: Killichonan

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